U.S. Pat. No. 6,009,796 (‘796 Patent), which issued to Larzik, discloses a Marshmallow Toasting Apparatus. The ‘796 Patent describes a marshmallow toasting stick, particularly suited for camp fire use, including a substantially round wooden stick of a certain stick length and a certain cross-sectional stick diameter; a substantially round handle at a first end of the stick of a smaller handle length and a larger handle cross-sectional diameter. A taper is formed at a second end of the stick to a blunt point of still smaller cross-sectional diameter, with the handle color-coded for identifying the user of the stick, and with the stick and handle dimensions being selected so that one or more marshmallows could be suspended over the flames of a camp fire from a distance which protects an adult or child user from the heat of the fire.
